Many tucks seem highly upset

[Maccat]

And besides basketball was driving conference realignment everyone knows that.  Harder to get into the Big East than the SEC.

[Cire]

plus, you have to be good the year before, plus you have to play a good schedule and beat your schedule by a bunch of points to have the best chance.

Then, the sports writers might not even let you play for it.

don't forget that unless you go undefeated, you have to be ranked high in the preseason poll, too.  A one loss team has ZERO shot at a title unless they were ranked to start the season. So you basically have to be really good for two straight seasons.

Infinitely harder

[kso_FAN]

Scrub teams win basketball NCs all the time. Football at worst might get the 3rd best team in the NC game occasionally instead of the 2nd. Might.

[sonofdaxjones]

I've never seen North Carolina have to go play at Cameron Indoor against Duke in the NCAA tourney . . . but in order to even have a chance to win a national title in football LSU had to go play at Alabama and win.

I've never seen Kentucky have to play Syracuse twice in the NCAA tourney in order to win the National Championship . . . But LSU may have to play Alabama twice in order to win a National Title in Football.

[Fake Sugar Dick (WARNING, NOT THE REAL SUGAR DICK!)]

BWMHawk persuaded me,

Winning an NC is much harder than winning an NC  :zombieeyes:

[yoga-like_abana]

Stan did a terrific job tonight!

[Trim]

The less teams allowed in the hoops tournament, the harder it would be to win that national championship.

[deputy dawg]

There's a reason there are more Cinderellas in basketball than in football. 

[OB_Won]

Winning six straight games in a single elimination tournament is infinitely more difficult than winning one game at the end of the season.  I mean it's not even close. 

How many 7-4 (equivalent to 21-11 in bball) teams have you seen play for a national championship in football?
How many football teams have you seen fail to win their conference and/or their conference championship game, yet still win the national title?
How many lose to 7 unranked teams yet still contended for a title?
How many lose to two different conference teams twice, and another team once but still get a chance to play them AGAIN for the national title?
How often will a team that's not from the south and/or close to a coast get to play for the national title 30 miles from their home? 

I think winning both titles is EXTREMELY difficult, and you have to be VERY lucky.  However, you have to be both good and lucky ALL YEAR in football.  You don't get the luxury of taking a third of the year off only to get hot at the end.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987%E2%80%9388_Kansas_Jayhawks_men's_basketball_team